LIBER VI · CAPUT 12
THE ISLANDS OF THE EUXINE
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Insulae in Ponto Planctae sive Cyaneae sive Symplegades; deinde Apollonia Thynias dicta, ut distingueretur ab ea quae est in Europa — distat a continente p. M, cingitur III — et contra Pharnaceam Chalceritis, quam Graeci Ariam dixerunt Martique sacram et in ea volucres cum advenis pugnasse pinnarum ictu.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
The islands of the Euxine are the Planctæ or Cyaneæ, otherwise called Symplegades, and Apollonia, surnamed Thynias, to distinguish it from the island of that name in Europe; it is four miles in circumference, and one mile distant from the mainland. Opposite to Pharnacea is Chalceritis, to which the Greeks have given the name of Aria, and consecrated it to Mars; here, they say, there were birds that used to attack strangers with blows of their wings.